Copy a Configuration

The copy function allows you to copy a configuration's settings to a new location within the PolicyCenter configuration tree, or overwrite an existing configuration. With this function, instead of manually designing a new configuration from scratch, you can start with a copy of an existing configuration and then make any necessary additions or changes quickly and easily. The copy function's Include children option allows you to copy the selected configuration and all of its child configurations with a single copy operation.

Use the copy function when you want to perform any of the following tasks:

• Create a new configuration
• Replace an existing configuration
• Create a temporary backup of a configuration

What Classes and Attributes are Copied?

When you copy a single configuration, you are copying only its local and local overridden and underridden classes and sharable attributes, that is, classes or attributes that were created within that configuration, and not the classes or attributes it may have inherited from a parent configuration. If the configuration you want to copy has child configurations under it, you may include the child configurations in the copy function by selecting the Include children option.
 See an example of copying a configuration and included children.

Notes: Because shared classes inherited from a parent configuration are not copied, it is possible to copy local child traffic classes but not their shared parent traffic class inherited from the parent. If you copy or move this configuration to another configuration that does not have the parent class, a dummy parent folder will be created for the children. This dummy parent folder allows the copied configuration to maintain the same traffic tree structure as the original configuration.
 see examples of traffic class inheritance as a configuration is copied from one parent to another.

If a configuration has a local or overridden class that uses a host list inherited from its parent, moving or copying this unit configuration will cause an error if the associated host list is not in the new parent configuration as well. To work around this, create a local host list before moving or copying the configuration, or ensure that the host list also exists in the new parent configuration. If you wish to create a copy of a configuration's local and inherited attributes, including inherited parent classes and hostlists, you must use the config save and config load commands in the PolicyCenter console command-line interface.

Copying a Configuration

1. Click the copy button on the upper toolbar. The configurations options window will open.  show screen
   
   
2. Select the configuration to be copied from the Copy Configuration drop-down list. Click the Include Children checkbox beside this drop-down list if you wish to also copy all the children of the selected configuration.
   
   
3. From the Under drop-down list, select a new parent configuration for the copied configuration, or select / to copy the configuration to the top of the PolicyCenter configuration tree.
   
   
4. (Optional) Enter a new name in the And Rename It To field. If you want to overwrite an existing child configuration, enter the name of the child configuration you want to overwrite. If you want to keep the child configurations intact enter a unique configuration name.
   
   
5. Click the copy button.
   
   
6. A pop-up window will ask you to confirm your selection. Click OK.
   

A window will open and display the progress of the copy function. Do not close this window until the copy function has completed.

See also:

PolicyCenter Overview

Move a Configuration